As Executive Vice President at The Citizens Foundation, Zia leads TCF’s global resource mobilization efforts, serving a movement of thousands of committed volunteers across 14 countries. He has also stewarded TCF’s partnership with the Government, through which, more than 40,000 students receive high quality education at 300+ TCF-managed public schools.

Zia is a board member at Global Schools Forum – an organization aiming to strengthen the global education sector by working with non-state organizations serving children from low-income backgrounds in developing countries.

Before joining TCF in 2014, Zia spent 17 years in senior business and risk management roles at Citi and Standard Chartered, and served on the Board of Directors for the leading payments switch in Pakistan.